Measures of risk attitude: Correspondences between mean-variance and expected-utility approaches

Decisions in Economics and Finance

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-65

  Eichner, Thomas ^a   Wagener, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 20444441532     PISSN: 15938883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10203-005-0050-0     Document Type: Article

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